Stabilising Production Releases, From 2hr Manual Checklist to 8-Min Automated Pipeline
📈 75% faster deploys · Zero production incidents post-launch
Client
SaaS Startup
Timeline
3 Weeks
My Role
Lead DevOps
Status
✓ Live
— PROJECT SCREENSHOTS — HOVER TO PAUSE —
WALKTHROUGH VIDEO
Watch the Full System Running Live
A complete screen recording showing the pipeline from git push to zero-downtime production deploy. Includes Grafana dashboard reacting in real time
— THE PROBLEM
What Was Breaking Before I Arrived
→ Every deployment required a 2-hour manual checklist with 3 engineers
→ Intermittent failures under peak traffic with zero rollback strategy
→ No automated testing before any production deploy
→ Zero visibility into failures, just guessing and weekend firefighting
→ Team was afraid to deploy, on Fridays or any day
— MY SOLUTION
What I Built — Step by Step
01
Full Audit
Mapped every manual step and identified all failure points
02
Pipeline Design
New CI/CD with GitHub Actions, Docker, AWS ECS
03
Test Coverage
Automated unit, integration and smoke tests before every deploy
04
Zero Downtime
Blue-green deployment with instant rollback capability
— The Results
What Changed After Delivery
0%
Faster Deployments
From 2hrs to under 8 minutes
0
Production Incidents
Six months post-launch
0x
Deploy Frequency
Ships confidently 3x per day
— Stack Used
Tools & Technologies
GitHub Actions
Docker
AWS ECS
Terraform
Python
Prometheus
Grafana
Bash/Shell
— Client Feedback
What the Client Said
★★★★★
Bisma didn’t just set up our CI/CD pipeline, she rewrote how we think about deployments. We went from dreading Fridays to shipping twice a day without a second thought. Documentation left behind is better than most senior hires.
RN
Rachel N.
CTO, FinTech — Australia
Verified
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